Sleeping car room arrangement



Feb. 21 1950 w. B. DEAN ET AL SLEEPING CAR ROOM ARRANGEMENT 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed July 18, 1945 i7 27 Al PIG.

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SLEEPING CAR ROOM ARRANGEMENT Filed July 18, 1945 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 a "I I, III

IIIIIIIIIIIIII INVENTORS WALTER B. DEA/v NORMAN WPESM/Ri ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 21, 1950 SLEEPING CAR ROOM ARRANGEMENT Walter B. Dean, Narberth, and Norman W.

Fesmirc, Willow Grove, Pa., assignors to The Budd Company, Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania ApplicationJuly 18, 1945, Serial No. 605,710

3 Claims. 1

The invention relates to room arrangements,

such as room arrangements in railway sleeping cars or the like, where space is at a premium.

More particularly, the invention relates to that class of room arrangements in which the room is furnished with accessories for the comfort and convenience of the passengers and may be readily converted from a sitting room to a sleeping room or vice versa. Such accessories may comprise a folding wash basin foldable against one wall of the room and a foldable bed foldable against another wall thereof when they are not required for use, both said bed and wash basin being extended horizontally into the room when desired for use. Such an arrangement is disclosed and claimed in application Serial No. 583,259 filed March 17, 1945, in the name of John W. Patton and entitled Sleeping car.

The invention has for its main object the simplification and otherwise improvement of the mounting of the foldable wash basin so as to facilitate its operation, its mounting and demounting on the associated wall of the room.

Another object is to provide simple and easily operable locking means for retaining the basin in its extended position and to provide for automatically moving it out of the path of the bed when the latter is moved to its position of use.

These and other objects and advantages are attained by the construction hereinafter described in detail in connection with the drawings forming a part of this specification.

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary side elevational view of a railway car equipped according to the invention, a part of the side wall being broken away and the interior rooms shown in vertical section, one room being shown for its whole length and with the wash basin in folded position and the bed in use position, and an adjoining room being shown for part of its length with the wash basin in use position and the bed in folded position;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary transverse sectional View through the car, the section being taken substantially along the line 2--2 of Fig. 1, the wash basin being shown in full lines in use position and the bed being indicated diagrammatically in dot-and-dash lines in use position;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view through the extended wash basin taken substantially along the line 33 of Fig. 2, parts of the mounting wall being broken away and shown in section and the folded position of the basin beingindicated by dot-and-dash lines;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional detail through the basin mounting taken substantially along the line 4-4 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional detail of one end of the basin mounting taken substantially along the line 5-5 ofFi'g. 4.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, it will be seen that the room with which theinvention is shown associated has a floor l0 at the car floor level", a ceiling l I, a longitudinal outside wall [2, a thickened hollow aisle wall l3, and spaced transverse walls It interconnecting the outside and aisle walls.

Among other accessories, it is equipped with a foldable bed l5 foldable about a pivot i6 vertically against the adjacent transverse wall, and arranged to be swung about its pivot to horizontal extended position, as shown in Fig. 1. On moving the bed, its inner side swings closely adjacent the inner face of the aisle wall I3, on which the ioldable wash basin I1 is mounted. When the wash basin is extended into the room to horizontal use position, see Fig. 2', it will be seen that it projects into the path of movement is pivotally mounted in the side walls l9 and 20 of therecess i8 at 2| and 22, respectively, to permit its easy movement from folded to use position or vice versa.

Such pivotal mounting may comprise a shaft or spindle 23 extending through the wash basin adjacent its lowerend and having its ends form? ing trunnions and resting in bearing seats 24 and. 25 formed at the inner ends of inwardly extended slots 28 and 21 extending from the outer face of the aisle wall and formed in the side walls l9 and 200i the recess [8, which walls are suitably reinforced in this region, see Figs". 4 and 5.

This shaft 23 is rotatably mounted with respect to the basin in end bearing brackets 28, 28 and a central bearing bracket 29, 'see Fig. 4'. Normally the wash basin is biased to its folded position in the recess I8 by a spring 30 having one end secured to the shaft at 3| and the other end secured to the central bearing bracket 29 at 32.

To positively lock the basin in its extendedposition a spring-actuated latch 33, see Figs. 3 and 5, engages under the inner end of the wash basin inwardly beyond the mounting shaft 23'and thereby prevents the movement of the basing from its horizontal use position. As soon as this latch is released, the spring promptly moves the basin to its folded position in the recess l8.

Means are provided for operating the latch either manually or automatically. The latch 33 1s a two-armed leverpivoted at 35 on a bracket 36 secured to the transverse side wall l9, its remote arm being pivoted to a Vertically extending rod 31 through a clevis 38 threaded on the lowerend of the rod. Normally the latch is held to its operative position, shown in Figs. 3 and 5, by

a coil spring 39 bearing at its opposite ends reis sufficient to hold the basin in mounted posispectively against the clevis 38 and a bracket 40 secured to the side wall 19. The rod 31 is manually raised to compress the spring 39 and release the latch from engagement with the basin by a handle 4| slidably mounted in'the outer" face wall 42 of the aisle wall and connected to? the rod through a bell crank lever 43 pivoted at 4! on a bracket 45 secured to the side wall I9. When the wash basin is moved from folded to extended position the latch 33 is maintained inoperative by engagement with the inner end of th basin until in extended position it is snapped by the spring 39 to its locking position.

Since the wash basin, when in extended position, see Fig. 4, interferes with the lowering of the bed to use position, it is desirable that automatic means be provided, in addition to the manual means, for releasing the latch. if the wash basin is left in the extended position, when the bed is being lowered. Such means may comprise a lever 46 pivoted at 41 on a bracket 28 secured to side wall l9 and having one arm projecting through a slot 49 (Fig. 1) in the outer face wall 42 and carrying a rubber-faced roller 50 which projects a slight distance into the path-of movement of the bed. The opposite end of the lever 46 engages under an adjustable abutment, suchhind the shoulder 53 lookin the basin in place. The reaction of the spring 30 through arm 52 also tends to throw the shaft downward behind the shoulder and to maintain it in this locked position so that there is no danger of the basin accidentally being dismounted. When the operator wishes to dismount the basin, he merely lifts up the basin bodily against gravity and the tension of spring 30 until the shaft is removed from behind the shoulder 53 when the basin can be outwardly withdrawn from the slots 26 and Obviously, a single. arm at one end of the shaft tion, but if desired, to have a symmetrical arrangement, it will be understood that the opposite end of, the shaft and its cooperating slot 21 could be arranged similarly to the showing in Fig. 5.

While a specific embodiment of the invention has been herein described in detail it will be understood that changes and modifications may. be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the main features of the invention, and such changes and modifications are intended to be covered by the appended claims.

What is claimed is: r 1. A room for-sleeping cars or the like havinga vertical enclosing wall provided with a recess,. a wash basin foldable into the recess in said wall,

and pivotal means for mounting said basin in the recess permitting its movement to extended position, said pivotal means comprising slots extending from the face of said wall inwardly along the sides of said recess and pins on said wash basinengaging said slots, at least one of said as the nut 5|, threaded in the upper end of the rod 31.

When the bed is lowered the lever 46 is moved to the dotted line position, Fig. 2 and the latch 33 released to allow the basin to be rapidly swung by its spring 30, which is obviously made suiiiciently strong to exert the necessary force, to the folded position in the recess before the bed is lowered past it. It will be understood that the inner end of the basin is provided with a usual discharge opening through which its contents are discharged into a usual discharge chute when the basin is moved to the vertical folded position.

A further feature of the invention comprises the use of the basin mounting and operating spring 30 to secure the basin in place against accidental removal but which permits the operator to release the basin and withdraw it from its mounting, if desired.

-'To this end, the left hand end of the shaft 23, Fig. 4, is provided with a laterally extending arm 52, and the slot 26 is provided with a downward offset forming a shoulder 53, Fig. 5, at a distance from the inner end of the'slot about equal to the length of said arm. This arm can be used to rotate the shaft to impart the proper tension to the spring 30 prior to the insertion of the ends of the shaft in the outer ends of the slots 26 and 21 and, with the arm aligned with slot 26 and the opposite end of the shaft aligned with slot 21, the basin may be slid into mounting position. When the parts have been moved to the inner ends of the slots, the shaft drops down by" gravity into the offset portion of the slot beslots being provided with a locking shoulder facing inwardly of the open end of the slot, the slot being widened vertically in the region inwardly of said shoulder, the pin engaging said slot being provided with a lateral arm, said arm being automatically moved behind said shoulder to lock the wash basin in place, when the basin is moved to mounting positionwith the pins adjacent the inner ends of the slots.

\ -2. A room for sleeping cars or the like having a vertical enclosing wall, awash basin foldable into a recess in said wall, slots at the sides of said recess opening to the face of said wall, a shaft passing through said wash basin from side to side and projecting at its ends into said slots, at least one end of said shaft having a radial arm rigidly secured thereto and projecting therefrom and the slot into which said end projects being provided with a locking shoulder facing inwardly of the open end of the slot and being widened verticaly inwardly of said shoulder, and means biasing said wash basin and shaft to rotate relative to each other and reacting against the shaft and arm to cause it to look behind said shoulder and thus prevent accidental withdrawal of the wash basin from its mounting but permitting withdrawal at the will of the operator.

3. In combination, a vertically extending wall having a recess therein, and a wash basin pivotally mounted in said recess for movement between a vertical folded position in the recess to a horizontal use position extending beyond said wall,

said pivotal mounting comprising generally hori--.

zontal slots at the sides of said recess opening to the face of the wall and terminating in closed ends inwardly of said face and trunnion mem-- wardly facing shoulder and the trunnion member cooperating with said slot carrying a radially extending arm having a shoulder for engagement with the shoulder in the slot, when the wash basin is mounted in the recess, to prevent accidental withdrawal of the basin from its mounting but permitting willful withdrawal by first bodily moving the basin vertically for the release of the shouldered engagement prior to withdrawal in a generally horizontal direction.

WALTER B. DEAN.

NORMAN W. FESMIRE.

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